Free agent Ghiacuic joined Chargers to replace center Mruczkowski

The San Diego Chargers center Scott Mruczkowski will not play for the team again for this season because he has been placed on injured reserve with an ankle injury, and Eric Ghiacuic was has been signed to the team as his replacement.

Mruczkowski was hurt during the game-winning drive in Sunday’s 27-24 victory against Cincinnati. Mruczkowski started the last 13 games at center after Nick Hardwick hurt an ankle in the season opener at Oakland, requiring surgery. While Mruczkowski was put on IR list, Hardwick might be fine enough to play this Friday night’s game against the Tennessee Titans.

Ghiacuic started 42 of 48 games at center from 2005-08 in Cincinnati Bengals jersey. He signed with the Kansas City Chiefs as an unrestricted free agent in 2009 but was released after training camp.

Chargers won ninth straight game by beating Bengals 27-24

The San Diego Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding kicked a 52-yard field goal when it was only three seconds before game ended, and the playoff-bound Chargers pulled out a tight 27-24 win over the grieving Cincinnati Bengals, who entered Sunday’s game three days after losing wide receiver Chris Henry.


The winning kick came after Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers moved the Chargers 46 yards in 51 seconds with no timeouts and backup center Dennis Norman snapping after Scott Mruckzkowski was injured. A few minutes after the final gun, the Chargers clinched their fourth straight AFC West title when Denver lost 20-19 to Oakland.

Thus the Chargers won their ninth straight game and clinched a playoff spot before halftime because of other results. The Bolts improved to 17-0 in December dating to 2006.

Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco caught a 49-yard touchdown pass from Carson Palmer to give the Bengals a 10-7 lead early in the second quarter, then the receiver wearing his No.85 Bengals jersey got down on both knees and touched his heart with his right hand. However, the Bengals finally only tied the game at 24 on Shayne Graham’s 34-yard field goal with 54 seconds left.

Chargers RB L.T. set records

All San Diego Chargers fans can keep their No. 21 LaDainian Tomlinson jerseys as valuable collectibles as the running back has moved into eighth place on the career rushing list and become the fastest player to 150 career touchdowns during Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns.


By rushing totally 12,315 career yards, Tomlinson passed Hall of Famer Jim Brown and St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk in the career rushing list, just one week after he passed Marcus Allen and Edgerrin James to take over10th on the list. His total rushing yards is three more than Brown’s 12,312 yards and 36 more than Faulk’s 12,279 yards.

And he reached 150 touchdowns in his 137th game on Sunday. The previous record was made by Emmitt Smith, who had 150 touchdowns in 160 games. So we can be assured that L.T. will keep making more records by rushing more yards and carrying more touchdowns, opening a road to the Hall of Fame.

Walt Daniels died 12 hours after falling out of press box at Qualcomm Stadium

Walt Daniels, 66, died at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sharp Memorial Hospital, 12 hours after he fell out of the press box at the Qualcomm Stadium, where the Denver Broncos played against the San Diego Chargers on Monday night.


“The San Diego Chargers’ family is greatly saddened by the loss of Walt Daniels,” the team said in a statement. “Walt loved the team and loved working in the press box on game days for more than 20 years. Our prayers are with his family and friends during this most difficult time.”

The 66-year-old man fell about 25 to 30 feet out of a booth that was to be used by Broncos assistant coaches and landed on the loge level. He seemed to sustain a head injury and was administered CPR before being taken to the hospital. Happening about three hours before kickoff, the accident delayed the opening of the game by about 40 minutes.

Los Angeles planned to send invitations to six NLF teams to move there

As a new stadium construction is to be approved for the Los Angeles suburb of Industry by October 15, the developers, the Majestic Realty Co. has made plan to invite a NFL team to the City of Angles, far before the $800 million, 600-acre project is completed.


In fact, the developers have planned to ask in February at least six NFL teams if they want to move to L.A. next season or wait till the construction is done in a few years. One of the six teams is the San Diego Chargers, who have a three-month window every year that starts in February to inform the city of San Diego what their plans are for the coming season. And the developers of the L.A. new stadium hope that the team’s plans for 2010 will include moving to Los Angeles.

The developers pronounced last year they would have a team in L.A. by this season. Although by so far no team has seemed to be interested in moving there, they still believe that Los Angeles will have one NFL team in near future.

Chargers RB Tomlinson not to play against Dolphins on Sunday

After missing last Sunday’s home-opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson is ruled out for a second straight game at home because of an injury he got in season-opening win against the Oakland Raiders.


“It’s hard because you’d like to have all your guys,” Coach Norv Turner said Friday. “It’s crazy, because on Sept. 1, when people were asking me what I thought about camp, I said it was great that we were healthy and had all our guys, because that’s something we haven’t had in a while.”

The Chargers will play against the Miami Dolphins this Sunday, and Darren Sproles will start instead of L. T. Sproles, who also returns kickoffs and punts, has 524 all-purpose yards in two games.

According to Turner, L.T. is getting better and will likely return to field next week or no later than the end of Chargers’ by week after playing against the Pittsburgh on Oct. 4.